Oedelsheim District

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Oedelsheimer Kreis is the name of a group of educators who founded the yearbook for education in 1989/90 in Oedelsheim (Oberweser) and whose scientific approach was based on the link between social history and education. In this tradition, the educational and social scientists who publish the yearbook for pedagogy have met there since then.

History and self-image

For the first time in January 1989 a group of educationalists met in Oedelsheim, who were critical of the currents prevailing in university education. In addition to the Paderborn educational scientist Wolfgang Keim , who had initiated the meeting, they included the educators Hans-Jochen Gamm and Gernot Koneffke , who taught at the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Frankfurt educational scientist Karl Christoph Lingelbach , Kurt Beutler from the Technical University of Hanover, Ulla Bracht and Hasko Zimmer from the University of Münster, the Berlin school historians Gerd Radde and Ulrich Wiegmann, and the pedagogy historian and National Socialism researcher Klaus Himmelstein . The occasion of the meeting was a discussion within West German educational science about how to deal with the National Socialist past of the subject, which was sparked above all by Theodor Wilhelm , who - although an exposed Nazi educator - once again played a prominent role in academic education in the Federal Republic had taken. With a first publication - “Educational Science and National Socialism - A Critical Position Determination” - and a joint appearance by the group at two events on the question of the Nazi past at the Bielefeld DGfE Congress in 1990, the Oedelsheimer Kreis established itself as an important voice in critical educational science.

Since 1990 a second constitutive topic and at the same time a further field of controversy with the mainstream of the subject, namely the problems of "discrimination" and "handling" of educational research in the GDR, has faced the group . The Oedelsheimer Kreis saw it as its task to maintain the socially critical and materialistic approaches to educational science, which were also marginalized in West Germany. The differences of opinion of those years gave the impetus to the foundation of the yearbook, the first volume of which, "Educational Science in the German-German Unification Process", was presented to the public at the DGfE congress in 1992 in Berlin.

Since the turn of the millennium, the founding editors gradually retired for reasons of age, and the circle of editors has changed since then. The critical processing and reflection of new topics, such as B. global transformations, transhumanism or inclusion , and their importance for education complete the agenda.

literature

  • Wolfgang Keim u. a. (Ed.): Educational Science and National Socialism - A Critical Position Determination (= Forum Wissenschaft. Study booklet 9). Association of Democratic Scientists, Marburg 1990, ISBN 3-924684-21-9 .
  • Wolfgang Keim: 20 years of the “Yearbook for Education”, 25 years of the “Oedelsheimer Kreis” - a look back at the beginning. In: Yearbook for Pedagogy 2013. Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 17–38.
  • Wolfgang Keim: Gernot Koneffke in the Oedelsheimer Kreis: Social context, topics, experiences. In: Katharina Herrmann, Harald Bierbaum (Hrsg.): Genesis and validity of Gernot Koneffke's materialistic pedagogy. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren 2019, pp. 75–98.
  • Gerd Steffens: History as a way of thinking - Koneffke's educational theory and the Oedelsheimer circle. In: Katharina Herrmann, Harald Bierbaum (Hrsg.): Genesis and validity of Gernot Koneffke's materialistic pedagogy. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren 2019, pp. 99–119.

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